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Take a Walk on a Leaky Uintah Basin Oil Well With a Whistleblowing Oil and Gas CEO
In response to national news in late May that pointed to a potential cluster of stillborn births in the heavily drilled and fracked Uintah Basin, we take you inside …
Meet the Navajo Activist Who Got the Washington Redskins’ Trademark Revoked: Amanda Blackhorse
The growing movement to change the name of the Washington Redskins football team has scored a surprising victory.
Argentina Alleges Extortion After Supreme Court Sides With Vulture Funds Preying on Sovereign Debt
The US Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Argentina over its $1.5 billion debt in a ruling critics say validates predatory behavior by so-called “vulture funds.”
Enbridge Pipeline Decision Violates Rights of First Nations
Chief Na'Moks of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation says the pipeline will have a devastating impact on the environment of First Nations communities.
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Julian Assange Remains Trapped in Ecuadorian Embassy Two Years Later
WikiLeaks founder's Attorney Michael Ratner explains how the US, UK and Sweden share responsibility for Assange's inability to leave.
Will Iraq or Syria Survive? UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Sectarian War and the Disastrous 2003 Invasion
“The biggest mistake was to invade Iraq,” said former UN-Arab League special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Intelligence Agencies Say They’re Too Big to Follow Regulations, and More
What do we do when an intelligence agency says they're too big to follow regulations?
“The Last Magazine”: One Year After Death, Michael Hastings’ Lost Novel Satirizes Corporate Media
Today, another major work from Michael Hastings is upon us: “The Last Magazine,” a posthumous novel and scathing satire of the corporate news media based on Hastings' time at …
Being Poor Has Never Been A Crime In Our Country. Until Now.
They're turning yet another wing of the “justice” system into a straight-out profit center.
Juan Cole: Mass Sunni Uprising Forces Iraq to Confront Sectarian Blowback of 2003 US Invasion
President Obama has announced plans to deploy about 275 US military forces back to Iraq.